In 2001, Akhil Amar laid out a creative way the US could adopt a national popular vote. Now it might happen — and he worries it could go badly wrong.

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So if I'm reading this right, his chief concern is that there's no mechanism to ensure that states are reporting the right votes. That we just have to trust the states. But that's how it is now. That's always been how it is. The states report their votes. If you're doubting that then you're just doubting the legitimacy of all democracy to begin with right?

Seems like a solipsist type of objection really.

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